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Josh GreenbaumPrincipal at Enterprise Applications Consulting |
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| Article: Enterprise vs the Consumer Cloud: Azure vs Amazon is the Wrong Fight to Watch |
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July 15 2009
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Microsoft has begun the process of unveiling details about the pricing and services for its much anticipated Azure cloud platform. There's a debate around whether Azure or Amazon will be the cheaper cloud, but the issue of price isn't the main point of comparison. The real question is which company plans to support real enterprise apps vs much less complex and more readily consumable, consumer apps. |
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| Article: The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype? |
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August 28 2008
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Josh Greenbaum comments on Lawson CEO Harry Debes SaaS view for both its courage (foolhardy) and its excess (hyperbolically so). According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to the Saas model's inherent lack of financial merit. |
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| Article: Salesforce.com, Partners, and Value-Added SaaS |
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June 16 2008
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This vision of value-added SaaS is in stark contrast to SFDC's - and other's - version of SaaS today, which is basically a lower-TCO, faster time-to-value replacement for on-premise functionality. So exciting ten years ago, so much yesterday's value-add in 2008 and beyond. |
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| Article: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings |
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February 15 2008
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Cloud computing is getting hot, as in hot promises, hot press releases, and some hot contentions about who's platform is going to win the latest battleground in on-demand/SaaS. The answer my friend, is largely blowing in the wind. But not for long. |
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| February 08 2012 |
| CRM has lots of proponents these days, and lots of momentum in the market, mostly for all the right reasons. But one reason in particular, specific to the public sector, and dramatically, almost radically important in its potential impact, is … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
| February 06 2012 |
| Nothing succeeds like success, the old saw goes, but there’s a dark side to the kind of success that SAP has been enjoying for the past year. Success of SAP’s magnitude is hard to achieve, but, more importantly, it’s even … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
| January 16 2012 |
| SAP is doing something significant in the acquisition of Datango, the question is whether the market will react accordingly. The move is significant in that Datango offers a new paradigm for enterprise software training, but that significance is tempered by … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
| January 05 2012 |
| I’ve been working in the interactive gaming and gamification industry for over four years now, first as the founder of a now-defunct start-up focused on developing interactive training games, and most recently as a hands-on catalyst for enterprise gamification. It’s … Continue reading ... read more >> |
| December 28 2011 |
| This is a story of a credit card fraud that happened to my wife and I just before the holidays. It’s an amazing one that apparently involves insiders working at Chase.com and UPS, but the fraud is only half the … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
| December 22 2011 |
| I was finally able to listen to the Oracle Q2 call, and the picture looks pretty bad for Oracle, while looking much better for the rest of the enterprise software market, which is completely undeserving of the collateral damage that … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
| December 12 2011 |
| As an industry analyst, I’m used to be being slotted, even though my goal has always been to cover as broad a swath of the enterprise software market as possible, based on the assumption that customers and users need help … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
| December 06 2011 |
| Over the ten years in which Microsoft has struggled to find a place for its Dynamics enterprise software products inside the company, the question of whether Microsoft should jettison the business unit altogether has surfaced more than once. And on … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
| December 05 2011 |
| As the enterprise software market parses the news that SuccessFactors will become SuccessFactors, an SAP company, the question of how well SAP manages its M&A strategy is coming to the fore. SAP has been buying small and large companies for … Continue reading → ... read more >> |
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